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BGU Grant Feedback 2024 Longsight Park

Friends of Harwood & Longsight Park Monday 08 September 2025
Hi Barbs and BGU,
Thank-you for the £200 grant which we put to a ‘heritage and walking’ sign improvement on Hough Fold Way. It had become impossible to read  and the council hadn’t the key to get into it anymore and the type was faded. I attach a before and after image.
We used the same posts and I checked the info via the Secretary to Turton Local History Society and tried to use as much of the old information as possible but used maps rather than photos to illustrate the paths and previous farms and bleach works.
The cost is below:
Salesperson: House FASTSIGNS Bolton
Direct Print to 3mm aluminium 1200 mm wide x 600mm    high 1 £336.98
Supply of the flat panel sign, Sign will go onto existing square 50 mm posts, Installation at BL3 3QU. Old sign box to be removed and passed back to Jane
Jane has supplied across all artwork instructions for the sign and maps
Subtotal: £336.98
Taxes: £67.40
Grand Total: £404.38
Amount Paid: £404.38.  BALANCE DUE: £0.00
Bill To: Friends Of Longsight Park
Installed: Friends Of Longsight Park
Hough Fold Way 
Harwood Vale
Bolton, Bolton BL2 3NB
PAID IN FULL INVOICE 880-40758
PO Number:  Completed Date: 22/12/2023
 
We have had a number of likes on our face book page, no complaints and a few local verbal comments. A typical one is’ That old sign needed a clean up and redo.’
    Thankyou,
       Jane
Chair friends of Harwood & Longsight Park

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